subminimal
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editsubminimal (not comparable)
- Below a minimal value.
- Hypernym: nonminimal
- Coordinate terms: submaximal, suboptimal; inadequate
- 2011, Claudia Maienborn, Event Arguments: Foundations and Applications, page 328:
- The fact that event predicates that denote subminimal P-events need to obey even stricter contextual restrictions was derived on the basis of scalar inferences, plus the assumption that subminimal events never occur in their own right.